Rainey, we are Pastafarians, to the point of having one of them totally obnoxious silver Flying Spaghetti Monster magnets for both of our Subarus... brilliant minds!_________________There is only one way to die- With a full stomach and a good tan.

If you're a Pastafarian in MT you're one brave babe! And, say, are you engaged in Bill O'Reilly's "war on Christmas" too? _________________God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor

It's a treat to read about all the funny t-shirts, because I am always embarrassed to wear them. This speaks volumes about me, not the issue of whether the t-shirts are really funny. My brother bought me a t-shirt from a bar in Missoula Montana, which reads "liquor in the front, poker in the rear". And he expected me to wear the t-shirt around in Chicago. I will send it to anyone who promises to wear it._________________The goal is to fit it all in.

As nobody in our house is Christian, we could go very happily without the mention of Christmas. We cracked up over Festivus, have come a long way from our family Hanukkah Bush, and now its just a nice day to sit back in a nice, empty operating room, collecting time and a half while others enjoy their own days off, fixing the occasional person here and there.

Culinarily seems to be the only way we recognize it at all, actually. A good meal, some wine, a walk at midnight.

Bill O'Reilly certainly does have some points, and it is abominable to me how this society has cheapened down a spiritual belief of so many. I only send New Years cards, I put up with Christmas carols cranked overhead at work, and I only crave the flavors of latkes and all the fixins once a year out of homesickness. We choose to dignify the holidays by not shredding them to pieces like mainstream culture. We grieve for those that DO have such holidays and have the real meaning perverted by capitalism, exploitation and commercialism.

(jumping off my soapbox now... Rainey, it took a lot to provoke me to express my beliefs- you accomplished a heck of a feat!)_________________There is only one way to die- With a full stomach and a good tan.

I think of those who believe the Christian story...in the midst of the $(substitute any money form)horror...

methinks it's a little like being at peace no matter what....that calm no matter what....

it is achievable...

I think of the journey of belief....that Chrisitianity grew from...as that before IT grew from...as that before IT grew from and so on....oh oh...I too could be on a soapbox!.....Speakers' Corner in London

'n Judy will have my head off in two ticks if I roam too far off topic!_________________"I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson

love the first one! might have that printed for our Friday night gals' group..._________________"I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson